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Wrathfuller waxed he in railing: and now had the strife run high,

But amidst of their wrangling their comrades with loud indignant cry,

With Aison’s son, restrained them:—and lo, with his lyre upheld

In his left hand, Orpheus arose, and the fountain of song upwelled.

And he sang how in the beginning the earth and the heaven and the sea

In the selfsame form were blended together in unity,

And how baleful contention each from other asunder tore;

And he sang of the goal of the course in the firmament fixed evermore

For the stars and the moon, and the printless paths of the journeying sun,{500}

And how the mountains arose, how rivers that babbling run,

They and their Nymphs, were born, and whatso moveth on Earth;

And he sang how Ophion at first, and Eurynomê, Ocean’s birth,

In lordship of all things sat on Olympus’ snow-crowned height;

And how Ophion must yield unto Kronos’ hands and his might,

And she unto Rhea, and into the Ocean’s waves plunged they.

O’er the blessed Titan-gods these twain for a space held sway,